Key facts
The film restages photographs by Claude Cahun, setting them alongside spoken text from her writing now available in English for the first time.
ROLE
Concept originator, director, camera operator, set designer, editor and producer. The French text of Confidences au miroir (Cahun, 1945–54) was abridged by Sarah Pucill, who oversaw the first English translation by Rachel Gomme. The LUX Blu-ray version of the film has original French and English subtitles.
COLLABORATION
Mairead McClean, sound designer and editor; Konrad Welz, sound mix and online edit.
VENUES (selected)
Screenings
London Film Festival, October 9, 2016; Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, March 3, 2017; Creteil International Women’s Film Festival, Paris, March 16, 2017; White Cube, Bermondsey, August 6, 2017; National Portrait Gallery, London, March 17, 2017; UCL Art Museum Gallery, May 22, 2018; Dortmund / Cologne International Women’s Film Festival, April 12, 2019; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (rescheduled from April 2020 to May 15, 2021, due to covid-19, date to be confirmed)
Staged exhibitions
Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, Netherlands, including talk on December 13, as part of the exhibition Under the Skin – Claude Cahun, October 15, 2020 – May 9, 2021
Ottawa Art Gallery, Canada, as installation Garden Self-Portraits in exhibition Facing Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, September 14, 2019 – February 9, 2020
FUNDING
Arts Council of England – £15,000
LUX – £3,000
Blu-ray production match, CREAM, University of Westminster – £3,000
